Plimsoll line的词源

英文词源

Plimsoll line

"A marking on a ship’s side showing the limit of legal submersion when loaded with cargo under various sea conditions", Named after Samuel Plimsoll (1824–98), the English politician whose agitation in the 1870s resulted in the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, ending the practice of sending to sea overloaded and heavily insured old ships, from which the owners profited if they sank.

中文词源

Plimsoll line：船的吃水线

来自19 世纪英国船运改革家兼商人Samuel Plimsoll.在他的提议下，对船在装载货物应达到 的吃水线进行了规定，因此，由其名字代指船的吃水线。

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